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Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1946-Press Reports on the Campaign
… blatant disregard for "human rights" and the "fundamental freedoms" embodied in Article 1 of the Charter. This meeting, … Let us pledge: 'Long live…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
Key Words: Can Themba, Apartheid, Writer in Exile, Drum Magazine Born: 1924 Marabastad, Pretoria Died: 1968 Swaziland Education: High School, Polokwane …
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… August 1956 in the Eastern Cape. I was told he was one of five brothers. Another brother was already in exile when he … kept in touch by post. Since 1980,…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 8 - The Impracticality of Realism
… The average American consumes about much as twenty-five Indians. This is not a very good position from which to …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 97th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2009
… democratic movement of the people. The ANC has identified five key priorities aimed at addressing the enormous … (NHI) system, which will be phased in over…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… It is hard these days - twenty-five years on - to recapture the feeling of the time of … country illegally. In November 1962 he was sentenced to five years'…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… did give his speech it showed no move towards greater freedoms, but instead a renewed clamp-down on the liberation … elections, the NP on 29 June 1989…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 2 - 15 by Carol Hermer
… There would be one white working in our mission with five or six Africans and he would do his best to split the …
An Appeal to the people of South West Africa by Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela Dear Friends, I am writing to you in the name of the African people of the Union of South Africa, on the authority of the National Action…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
… poetry / 7 South African poets. - Johannesburg : Writers Forum, 1986. -- 68p. : ill. ; 21cm. -- Includes biographical … Curtailment and distortion of…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
Scanned in copy of the last page of the Treaty of Vereeniging, click to enlarge and view other pages Industrialization and British imperialism in South Africa…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… the 166 seats in the House of Assembly. Eight parties and five independents will contest 155 of the constituencies. 18 … of two and a half percent to the…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… or dead. On Wednesday 30 August about 600 students from five secondary schools decided to march to Bonteheuwel. On … complex at Pinetown was destroyed by…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… lushness of palm trees and gentle streams. [iv] There were five chief villages, namely the Kruber, Little Kru, Settra … i.e. the Jloh, Kabor, Gbeta, Sasstown…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
May Day celebrated on 1 May annually, is a celebration of workers and their work. It has a long history, being a day of commemoration and celebration of the…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
… class in the ANC sensed that the Congress would provide a forum where working-class people could raise a political …
Insurrections: The Storming
… internationally including at the BFI London Film Festival, Forum Expanded at the Berlinale, and the Serpentine Gallery. …
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… internationally including at the BFI London Film Festival, Forum Expanded at the Berlinale, and the Serpentine Gallery. …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… of Natal in1860 as indentured labourers, coolies, on five-year contracts, Indians came to work mainly on sugar … they lived under very harsh and cruel…
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… the "Blanket Campaign" to raise the salary of teachers to five pounds a month. Teachers were encouraged to wear … the cause of the people. I want to suggest…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… a ceremony to commemorate the death of King Cetshwayo . Five UDF students are killed by IFP supporters, in what is … Mitterrand and the Swedish Prime…
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… economic participation a Presidential Youth Development Forum must be set up, chaired by the Deputy President and the … Commission (NYC) Chairperson. The…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
The political importance of women’s food committees in Cape Town during the 1940s has been emphasised by both Cheryl Walker and Tom Lodge. According to Lodge,…
Document 57 - Lionel Forman, “Self-Determination in South Africa: A Contribution to Discussion”, Liberation, 37, July 1959
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 57 - Lionel Forman, "Self-Determination in…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… Campaign. June 29 , The Joint Planning Council, the five man committee of the national executive committee of …
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
The inquest has recently been reopened into the death of the South African Communist Party (SACP) underground operative Ahmed Timol while in the custody of the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms. April, South African Races Congress formed under … in Newcastle to strike. Phoenix…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… Company. The Dutch marked their permanence by building a five-pointed stone castle on the shores of the bay, a …
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… that carnivals now became a business. By 1960 there were five organizing boards whose promoters were intent on making …
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… only people hoping to obtain their individual rights and freedoms. Multiple work forces, from the miners to the other …